ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

NTSYNC Driver Fix Being Worked On For Proper User Permissions

([Linux Gaming] 15 February 11:05 AM EST NTSYNC)

One of the great new features of Linux 6.14 is the NTSYNC driver being completed for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives so that software like Wine and Proton (Steam Play) can provide for better performance when running Windows games on Linux. But it turns out an oversight up to now has meant that in practice it's not really too usable out-of-the-box.


Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment

([Nouveau] 15 February 06:40 AM EST Leaving Nouveau)

Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver. But today he announced he's resigning as a Nouveau driver maintainer due to differences with the upstream Linux kernel developer community.


KDE Developers Addressing Early Bugs From Plasma 6.3

([KDE] 15 February 06:27 AM EST Plasma 6.3 Bugs)

KDE Plasma 6.3 released this week as the newest step forward for the KDE desktop. While it was smooth on the whole, there were some early bugs that KDE developers were dealing with this week. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary for the Plasma desktop.


Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Rebranding As AerynOS

([Operating Systems] 15 February 12:00 AM EST AerynOS)

The nearly three year old Serpent OS Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus fame is going to re-brand as AerynOS.


Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support

([Programming] 14 February 08:24 PM EST Go 1.24)

Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language.


Dynamic Triple Buffering Merged For GNOME 48

([GNOME] 14 February 01:35 PM EST Dynamic Triple Buffering)

As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!


Linux 6.15 To Ensure PlayStation 5 Controllers Use The Correct Driver

([Hardware] 14 February 10:49 AM EST hid-playstation)

A change queued up by an Amazon engineer ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will ensure that PlayStation 5 controllers on Linux load with the correctly desired driver.


Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support For HPE Gen10/Gen10+ Servers

([LVFS] 14 February 08:52 AM EST Fwupd 2.0.6)

Fwupd 2.0.6 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source solution for system and peripheral device firmware updating under Linux.


Ubuntu Making Progress On Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut

([Ubuntu] 14 February 07:00 AM EST Ubuntu + Dracut Future)

As a follow-up to the news from last October of Ubuntu considering Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation, that work remains ongoing with some improvements since having been prepared for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release but it remains overall an active affair.


Show Your Love For Linux Hardware Coverage This Valentine's Day

([Phoronix] 14 February 06:30 AM EST Premium Special)

If you wish to show your appreciation for all of the Linux hardware reviews, Linux benchmarking, and open-source news provided on Phoronix each and every day, you can join Phoronix Premium this Valentine's Day weekend at a discounted rate.


GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks

([GNOME] 14 February 06:37 AM EST Dropping RPMs From GNOME Software?)

Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora's Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised.


Vulkan 1.4.308 Brings NVIDIA's Provisional Present Metering Extension

([Vulkan] 14 February 06:14 AM EST VK_NV_present_metering)

Vulkan 1.4.308 was quietly released last week and besides a few fixes what makes it interesting is the provisional VK_NV_present_metering extension.


Valkey 8.1-rc1 Delivers Fresh Performance Improvements

([Programming] 14 February 06:05 AM EST Valkey 8.1)

Valkey as the open-source in-memory store forked from Redis is preparing for its next feature release.


TrueNAS 25.04 "Fangtooth" Beta Unifies Linux SCALE & FreeBSD CORE Efforts

([Operating Systems] 14 February 12:00 AM EST TrueNAS 25.04 Beta)

TrueNAS 25.04 beta was released on Thursday as another step toward unifying the TrueNAS CORE OS derived from FreeBSD and the Linux-based TrueNAS SCALE.


OBS Studio Raises Issues With Fedora's Flatpak Package

([Free Software] 13 February 08:39 PM EST Legal Action Raised)

The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed.


Zed Editor Introduces Open-Source "Zeta" Edit Prediction Model

([Free Software] 13 February 03:58 PM EST Zed + Zeta)

The Zed code editor for macOS and Linux systems has proven to be quite popular for this Rust-based editor started by the creators of the Atom editor. Their latest feature being introduced is Zeta as an open-source edit prediction model to further enhance this code editor with AI capabilities.


Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format With Future Updates Optional

([Linux Storage] 13 February 02:18 PM EST Bcachefs On-Disk Format Frozen)

The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its latest development "master" branch.


Hector Martin Resigns From The Asahi Linux Project

([Operating Systems] 13 February 10:56 AM EST Asahi Linux)

Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to resign as project leader of Asahi Linux.


Linux 6.14-rc3 To Fix Platform Profile Support For Newer AMD-Powered ThinkPads

([Hardware] 13 February 10:41 AM EST Platform Profile)

Submitted today via the x86 platform driver updates ahead of Linux 6.14-rc3 on Sunday are some Lenovo ThinkPad patches that may interest some users.


Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations

([Multimedia] 13 February 09:51 AM EST AOM AV1)

For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12.


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Failed Attempts To Break Records
In September 1978 Mr. Terry Gripton, of Stafford, failed to break
the world shouting record by two and a half decibels. "I am not surprised
he failed," his wife said afterwards. "He's really a very quiet man and
doesn't even shout at me."
In August of the same year Mr. Paul Anthony failed to break the
record for continuous organ playing by 387 hours.
His attempt at the Golden Fish Fry Restaurant in Manchester ended
after 36 hours 10 minutes, when he was accused of disturbing the peace.
"People complained I was too noisy," he said.
In January 1976 Mr. Barry McQueen failed to walk backwards across
the Menai Bridge playing the bagpipes. "It was raining heavily and my
drone got waterlogged," he said.
A TV cameraman thwarted Mr. Bob Specas' attempt to topple 100,000
dominoes at the Manhattan Center, New York on 9 June 1978. 97,500 dominoes
had been set up when he dropped his press badge and set them off.
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"